My Pickup: Operation Tugboat, Part 1 - PickupTrucks.com
Editor's note: This story kicks off a special series we're calling My Pickup in which we give certain readers, industry associates, friends and colleagues a chance to tell us about their pickup trucks. We start the series off with longtime automotive journalist Greg Whale, who tells us about the first full-size pickup project he did for Four Wheeler magazine many years ago. Back when one bought music on vinyl or compact disc and most big pickup trucks came with vent windows, my first assignment at Four Wheeler magazine was to develop a library. In the late 1980s the magazine was more than 25 years old and had one room that held thousands of unorganized photos, manuscripts, press kits and old magazines. fearing idiot proof wasn't good enough, my boss (the editor) said to make it "editor proof. I failed miserably at making the library editor proof, but I learned a lot about the magazine's project vehicles, and that not one of them had been set up to tow a fifth wheel. A couple of years later I had completed one project that another editor started and one of my own that was more successful — driving 70,000 miles in two years, including Panama to Alaska off pavement. The idea was to build a full-size pickup that could carry substantial parts and people, tow almost anything and serve as chase truck for multiday road tests. Source: news.pickuptrucks.com
